ARIA singles top ten/ Chart Review: 27th January: Blinded by Eminem album bomb

So this week has a couple of big stories, just as I called it last week we have a new number one and we got something of an album bomb from Eminem following the surprise release of his new album "Music to Be Murdered By" but let's start right at the very top where the big story is that after a historic 24 non consecutive weeks at number one, "Dance Monkey" by Tones and I has been dethroned from the top spot by The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" giving The Weeknd his first Australian number one single ("Starboy" and "Can't Feel My Face" only reached number two"). "Blinding Lights" ruled digital sales and has a lead on streaming.

"Dance Monkey" fell to number two as it has pretty much started bleeding on digital sales and streaming. I expect this song will keep hold of number two next week given the boost given to it on streaming courtesy of finishing high on Triple J's Hottest 100.

Now we get to the first of the Eminem album bomb with "Godzilla" feat. Juice WRLD at number three. Now I am not sure about the prospects of this song going forward because its already losing streams and it's not doing much of anything on sales so we'll have to wait and see.

The real casualty in the shifting was "Don't Stop Now" by Dua Lipa which slipped one place to number four mostly do to sales running out of steam.

However the song that has some streaming traction and looks likely to be the biggest threat to "Blinding Lights" is "The Box" by Roddy Ricch as streaming is excellent but wow, sales are not catching on at all. 

What I was pleased to see happen was the two place fall for "Yummy" by Justin Bieber as it lost sales and streaming although it's getting a remix with Summer Walker somehow. Strange how Bieber keeps wanting to polish this turd of a song. Summer Walker, you are better than this.

Then we have a gaggle of 2019 hits on their way out of the top ten slowly, the first those being "Circles" by Post Malone which dropped two places to number 7. "Roxanne" by Arizona Zervas also dropping two places to number eight and "Memories" by Maroon 5 dropping one place to nine. The sooner both "Roxanne" and "Memories" are gone the better.

Returning to the top ten this week is "Never Seen the Rain" by Tones and I which moved up one place to number ten.

Gains

The biggest gain came for "You Should be Sad" by Halsey which climbed from forty one to fifteen this week which is good news because its a good song, hopefully it sticks around however its more off the release of "Manic".

"Good News" by Mac Miller jumped from forty three to twenty seven this week also off the back of the release of his posthumous album "Circles"

Losers

Wow, we had losers right across the board this week, the biggest coming for "Highest In the Room" by Travis Scott down to 38 while "I Don't Care" by Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber dropped twelve places to fifty and speaking of Bieber, "10,000 Hours" by Dan and Shay feat. Justin Bieber slumped from 30 to 42 because the song is straight outta Yawnsville.

2019 hits also took a hit with "Senorita" by Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabella dropping ten places to forty one, "Trampoline" by Shaed finally broke by hitting forty seven, "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X dropped nine places to forty three while "Castles" by Freya Ridings dropped from thirty five to forty four and "Lose You to Love Me" by Selena Gomez lost itself down to thirty one. 

Finally "Watermelon Sugar" by Harry Styles dropped eight places to thirty five and Lizzo's "Good as Hell" plummeted out of the top ten to eighteen.

Drop outs

Gone are 2019 hits like "Beautiful People" by Ed Sheeran and Khalid and "Piece of Your Heart" by Meduza and Goodboys...two songs I actually like but if they are taking with it "Graveyard" by Halsey (I know surprising considering you would have thought it'd get a boost off the back of the release of "Manic"), "Sorry" by Joel Corry, "No Idea" by Don Toliver. and "The Reaper" by The Chainsmokers and Amy Shark then I really can't complain too much.

The only song I feel a vague sense of disappointment seeing it gone is "Own It" by Stormzy feat. Ed Sheeran and Burna Boy...mostly because that song is pretty good and I'd have liked Stormzy to countract some the bad rap on the charts right now...

New Entries

So let's go through the rest of these Eminem new emtries given I have already mentioned "Godzilla" feat. Juice WRLD at number three so let's blow through the other four new Eminem songs to chart this week with "Those Kinda Nights" feat Ed Sheeran at twenty five, "Darkness" at thirty two, "Unaccommodating" feat. Young M.A at thirty four and "You Gon' Learn" feat. Royce Da 5'9" and White Gold at thirty six, none of these I expect to stick around.

It wasn't just Eminem though because we got "What A Man Gotta Do" by Jonas Brothers in at thirty nine and finally, "Eleven" by Khalid at forty nine.

Next week, well I expect the Eminem songs to be replaced by a bunch of songs that charted highly on Triple J's Hottest 100 and probably a boost for "Rushing Back" by Flume and Vera Blue. We'll find out at 5pm AEDT on Saturday.